Egypt Braces for Showdown

7/3/2013 2:41PM

Tensions are high in Egypt amid reports that soldiers have surrounded protesters and embattled president Mohammed Morsi has proposed a consensus government as a way out of the country's crisis. Wall Street Journal Matthew Bradley joins The News Hub from Cairo. Photo: Getty Images.

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... the the ... the live still notorious quiet in Cairo Egypt ... sentence on running high in Egypt amid reports that soldiers have surrounded protest as ... labels this minded and toppled president Mahmud Morsi ... and his propose a consensus government as a way out of this crisis ... well back and mall right here right now on the New Saab good afternoon and welcome I'm Simon Constable ... the will Street dolls man proudly jaunts on the phone from Cairo now worries monitoring the situation ... Max does a lot going on now handles a lot of reports found that what do you know it done and what else do we need to know ... were she rate now I'm a TV in the shade ... of color which is the key Sunni learning ... here in Cairo and Muhammad of their dynamic Coptic Pope ... the leader of the Christian can be here ... to hold a meeting with the military in your carry on people that are about to announce the ... court called roadmap ... for the new transition to democracy that each of ... whom are gone ... all of that happening is a retired military forces are deploying ... to route Cairo ... and protecting protests ... in various locations this protests ... in Nasr City their pro war Skype ... and then a protest in Cochlear square with the focal point of the of the revolution about looking for more than two years ago ... they protested private that they had pallets which is the main residence of President Mohammad Morsi ... and the protest in front of the of Republican Guard headquarters where he or she is reportedly paying right now ... we've also been hearing reports that the Republican Guard has put Morsi under house arrest those of coffee can for ... at the same time we've heard that ... the public prosecutor could travel bans on Apple's senior brother but he did ... content now one other things about them the millet re deployment is ... is that that's critical some of this awesome devolve into basically from by mass so that common sense the idea right ... that the IPO were thinking that third that all of the protests didn't come over the city ... there are really reaching the boiling point and the tension has been riding all day were several hours after forty eight hour ... ultimatum that ... we all expected ... where it was going to mean that the end ... of the the the strip in half of the breech right now ... and remember that the region although ... he he ... who is head of the Supreme Council the armed forces and the defence minister ... he came out on Monday and for that he was giving President Morsi forty eight hours to restore the crepes before the military winter Peter ... and the forty eight hour ultimatum to come and gone several hours ago that the entire city ... is really waiting with bated breath ... to hear what can happen next and and what you with that arm of the honey on the show when we have the the ... the Arab Spring and the uprising the overthrow of clothes name of Iraq ... what's the mood like now compared to last as it's analyzing different is is it molar a mountain man ... in awaited more worrying because we didn't own it you had warmed focus of anger which was ... president of the Mubarak who was a thirty year long ... to cater for all the and that the entire country seem to be getting together uniting is ... to expel this one man ... now we have a much more complicated ... sort of ... political fabric that ... will open where we have ... counter protests ... um ... demanding that are there more to gain power ... and we have protests ... a much larger protests ... trying to push him out of power ... and so it so much more complicated situation of flavor you've been hearing a lot of commentary about how this is you know ... setting the stage for a civil war ... then let's let's go let's hope